Telangana to double Hyderabad’s infra to support enterprise growth and prevent urban collapse: Minister

Telangana will be doubling the size of Hyderabad’s infrastructure over the next ten years to support unprecedented enterprise growth and prevent an urban collapse witnessed in other major cities, IT and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu told a gathering of tech industry leadership in Mumbai on Thursday (May 7, 2026).

“We are running at the speed of double-digit industrial growth,” he said, recalling the foresight of the government 20 years ago to build a world-class airport and the Outer Ring Road (ORR) despite initial criticism. “In the next ten years, we are going to double the size of Hyderabad’s infrastructure,” the Minister, who was delivering the keynote address at the NASSCOM GCC Summit 2026, said.

Roads and public transport among infra expansion plan

Speaking on sustainability and the ‘urban load’ that often chokes innovation through traffic issues and resource scarcity, Mr. Sridhar Babu presented the State’s future-proofing strategy. To drive its vision of a $1 trillion economy by 2035, Telangana is building a Net-Zero urban ecosystem anchored by the proposed Bharat Future City and a dedicated AI City. The expansion would also include a 340-km Regional Ring Road, massive metro and airport upgrades and the launch of the AIKAM innovation hub and Young India Skill University to proactively engineer industry talent pipelines, his office said in a release on his speech.

Several cities across the world were facing the consequences of unplanned urbanisation and ‘urban collapse’, he said, adding Hyderabad would avoid such pitfalls through long-term planning and infrastructure expansion. Mr. Sridhar Babu said the State government was pursuing a planned vision to transform Hyderabad into a global city over the next decade by attracting large-scale international investments and building future-ready infrastructure.

GCCs are enterprise innovation centres too

The Minister, who was speaking during the session ‘Beyond Policy: Designed to Win the Global GCC Race,’ said modern global capability centres (GCCs) have moved beyond being outsourcing hubs or cost centres. They are now powerful enterprise innovation centres driving the decentralisation of corporate sovereignty itself. Appealing to the technology and global financial leaders gathered in Mumbai, he sought to highlight how Hyderabad is uniquely positioned with the highest density of GCCs cutting across multi-sectoral domains, including Banking and Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), life sciences, semiconductors, defence, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), and space tech.

Hyderabad was emerging as a preferred destination for GCCs and over 70 GCCs were established in Hyderabad during the previous year — the highest in the country. The government was targeting launch of 100 more GCCs this year, with the potential to generate employment for nearly one lakh people.

World’s top five tech giants in Hyderabad

The world’s top five tech giants — Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Nvidia — along with seven of the world’s top ten semiconductor companies, have anchored their future in Hyderabad. This silicon density sits alongside operations from global capital market engines like Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange and banking giants like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. “Hyderabad gives you something no other city can: the ability to cross-pollinate talent,” Mr. Sridhar Babu said.